HP Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide

Figure 6-22 Firmware Summary
HP Superdome 2 Boot Support
This section provides details of the accessories supported by HP Superdome 2 for booting
purposes.
The only supported local disk is fibre channel – P2000 FC G3 array.
• Up to 12 LFF or 24 SFF SAS HDDs per array (SATA is available but not supported)
• Expandable up to 149 HDDs
• Suggest dedicated (per partition) 15K drives in Raid 1 configuration for
performance/availability
• Up to 512 LUNs supported per P2000 FC G3 array
• P2000 FC G3 product options, HDD and RAID details in P2000 Fc G3 QuickSpec are available
at:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13551_div/13551_div.HTML
Each partition (nPartition or vPar) requires dedicated boot path(s) and dedicated HBAs.
• One dedicated FC HBA per partition – two dedicated FC HBA for Serviceguard
• AD221A; AD222A; AD393A (Emulex 4Gb combo) at initial release
• AH400A; AH401A (QLogic 8GB 1- 2-port HBA) at initial release
• AH402A; AH403A (Emulex 8GB 1- 2-port HBA) post initial release
Up to 32 partitions per HP Superdome 2 – 16s. Each IOX supports up to 12 HBAs. Each HP
Superdome 2 – 16s supports up to 4 IOX at initial release.
HP Superdome 2 partition limits:
• nPartitions: per blade =1; per SD2-8s = 4; per SD2-16s = 8
• vPars: per blade = 4; per SD2-8s = 16; per SD2-16s = 32; per nPartition = 16
Local Boot
Up to 4 boot paths are supported per P2000 FC G3 array.
• P2000 FC G3 array can support up to two (2) dual port array controllers
• Each controller supports up to two (2) 8GB FC links
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